"In debut author Viceconte's coming-of-age novel, a teenager's attempt at redemption leads him from suburbia to jail to a shaky future." - Kirkus Reviews David Barnes returns home from boarding school, only to find that the life he left behind is completely different. Lost in a town he no longer knows, David falls into a downward spiral until awakened by a reality he never anticipated. The first novel by Christopher F. Viceconte, The Woods is a contemporary coming-of-age story about struggling to find one’s place in the world